Garmin Vívoactive 4 GPS Watch Gunmetal / Black

Buying guide

Features

Clock features

• Time/date.
• GPS time sync.
• Automatic daylight saving time.
• Alarm clock.
• Timer.
• Stopwatch.
• Sunrise/sunset times.

Sensors

• GPS.
• GLONASS.
• GALILEO.
• Garmin elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor.
• Barometric altimeter.
• Compass.
• Gyroscope.
• Accelerometer.
• Thermometer: Yes (with an optional accessory; sold separately).
• Pulse OX.

Daily smart features

• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®.
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps).
• Smart notifications.
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only).
• Calendar.
• Weather.
• Controls smartphone music.
• Plays and controls watch music.
• Music storage: Up to 500 songs.
• Find my phone.
• Find my watch.
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™.
• Compatible with garmin connect™ mobile.
• Garmin pay™.

Safety and tracking features

• Livetrack.
• Incident detection during select activities.
• Assistance.

Activity tracking features

• Step counter.
• Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it).
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal).
• Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep).
• Calories burned.
• Floors climbed.
• Distance travelled.
• Intensity minutes.
• Trueup™.
• Move iq™.
• Fitness age: Yes (in app).
• Body battery™ energy monitor.
• All-day stress tracking.

Fitness equipment/gym

• Available gym activity profiles: Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Yoga, Pilates and Breathwork.
• Cardio workouts.
• Strength workouts.
• Yoga workouts.
• Pilates workouts.
• On-screen workout animations.
• Automatic rep counting.

Training, planning and analysis features

• GPS speed and distance.
• Customisable screen(s).
• Customisable activity profiles.
• Auto pause®.
• Advanced workouts.
• Downloadable training plans.
• Auto lap®.
• Manual lap.
• VO2 max.
• Touch and/or button lock.
• Auto scroll.
• Activity history on watch.
• Physio trueup.

Heart rate features

• HR zones.
• HR alerts.
• HR calories.
• % HR Max.
• HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices).
• Respiration rate (during exercise): Yoga and breathwork only.
• Respiration rate (all-day and in sleep).

Running features

• Available run profiles: Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running.
• GPS-based distance, time and pace.
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute).
• Run workouts.
• Foot pod capable.

Golfing features

• Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green).
• Yardage to layups/doglegs.
• Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic Digital scorecard.
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit).
• Garmin autoshot™.
• Green view with manual pin position.
• Hazards and course targets.
• Pinpointer.
• Round timer/odometer.
• Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory).

Outdoor recreation features

• Available outdoor recreation profiles: Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing.
• Back to start.
• Total ascent/descent.

Cycling features

• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories).
• Available cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking.
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar).
• Compatible with Varia™ lights.
• Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor).

Swimming features

• Available swim profiles: Pool Swimming.
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories).
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only).
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only).
• Time and distance alerts.
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate.

Main features:

• There’s no such thing as too many health stats. Not on this watch.
• Go phone-free, and put your perfectly crafted workout playlists on your wrist.
• You’ll never run out of ways to move with 20+ preloaded sports apps.
• Forget looking up how to do a goblet squat. Get full workouts with animations on your wrist.
• Leave your wallet at home, and pay from your watch instead.
• Up to 8 days of battery keeps you connected to your life, not your charger.

In the box:

• vívoactive 4 Gunmetal: 010-02174-12.
• Charging/data cable.
• Documentation.

General:

• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3.
• Bezel material: Stainless steel.
• Case material: Fibre-reinforced polymer with polymer rear cover.
• Quick release bands: Yes (22 mm).
• Strap material: Silicone.
• Physical size: 45.1 x 45.1 x 12.8 mm.
• Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-200 mm.
• Touchscreen.
• Colour display.
• Display size: 1.3″ (33.0 mm) diameter
• Display resolution: 260 x 260 pixels
• Display type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP).
• Weight: 50.5 g.
• Battery life : Smartwatch mode: Up to 8 days / GPS mode with music: Up to 6 hours
• Water rating: 5 ATM.
• Memory/history: 7 timed activities, 14 days of activity tracking data.
• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®.
• Garmin Pay.

Tune in to your health.

• Body battery® energy monitoring: See your body’s energy levels throughout the day so you can find the best times for activity and rest.
• Pulse ox sensor: The Pulse Ox sensor gauges your blood oxygen saturation during the day and as you sleep to show how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
• Stress tracking: Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity when you’re feeling stressed.
• Menstrual cycle tracking: Use the Garmin Connect™ app to track your cycle, log physical and emotional symptoms and learn about training and nutrition during each phase of your cycle. Even get cycle tracking information on your wrist.
• Hydration tracking: Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. You can even have an auto goal for hydration that adjusts based on how much sweat you lose during activities.
• Respiration tracking: See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.
• Advanced sleep monitoring: Get a full picture of how you’re sleeping, with a breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages as well as Pulse Ox and respiration data.
• Wrist-based heart rate: The watch constantly samples your heart rate and will alert you if it stays high while you’re at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities — even underwater.
• Mindful breathing: When you want to relax or focus, you can start a breathwork activity, and this watch will track your stress and respiration to help you get a better understanding of how you’re breathing.

For all the ways you move.

• Animated, on-screen workouts: Easy-to-follow, animated cardio, strength, yoga and Pilates workouts come preloaded on the watch, and you can download more from the Garmin Connect app.
• Built-in sports apps: Track all the ways you move with more than 20 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps — including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, golf and more.
• Garmin coach: Get a personal running coach on your wrist, for free, to help you train for your next 5K, 10K or half-marathon.
• Custom workouts: Build your own workouts in Garmin Connect, and download them to the watch.

Stay connected.

• Smart notifications: Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible smartphone. You can even respond to texts if you have an Android™ phone.
• Music: Download songs plus playlists from your compatible music accounts (subscription may be required). Use wireless headphones (sold separately) for phone-free listening.
• Safety and tracking features: When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection.
• Garmin Pay™: Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
• Connect IQ™ Store: Add personality to your watch by downloading apps, widgets, watch faces and more. It’s easy and — even better — it’s free.

Made for daily wear.

• Battery life: Stay on the move longer with a battery life that lasts up to 7 days in smartwatch mode and up to 5 hours in GPS mode with music.
• Durable display: The always-on, sunlight-readable Garmin Chroma Display™ technology is housed under durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3.
• Water rating: This watch is water-rated to 5 ATM, making it perfect for a swim, shower or spa day.

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